Obvious Quotes
Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious
Every time you go the way the audience expects, they'll think you're original. People laugh with pleasure at the obvious.
John Terry is the perfect skipper. It's obvious Chelsea means everything to him. When he makes those last ditch blocks, team-mates can't help but be inspired.
I think one thing I've learned, as dorky and obvious as this sounds: People who like cool books are usually really cool people.
Editors seek out the first novels with the seductiveness of Don Juans; the pleasure of discovery is one of the obvious reasons.
A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.
An artist who is inspired is being obvious. He’s not making any decisions, he’s not weighing one idea against another. He’s accepting his first thoughts.
The best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no impact on you.
If something is repeated over and over as obvious, the chances are that it is obviously false.
Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.
Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.
You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means to be truly human, to know that you are bound up with others in the bundle of life.
The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.
It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not attempt to prevent it from doing so.
I feel like in a world where we all try to figure out our place and our purpose here, your passions are one of your most obvious guides.
It is precisely for the reason that Truth is utterly simple, basic, elementary and totally obvious, that it is completely overlooked.
In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true .
Suddenly it was obvious to me in my analysis I had missed what Fischer had found with the greatest of ease at the board
He who made all men hath made the truths necessary to human happiness obvious to all. Our forefathers opened the Bible to all.
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
I don't know why people are so reluctant to say they're feminists. Could it be any more obvious that we still live in a patriarchal world when feminism is a bad word?
The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
I saw that show, 50 Things To Do Before You Die. I would have thought the obvious one was 'Shout For Help'.
The main reason for the colossal objects is the obvious one, to expand and intensify the presence of the vessel - the object.
This is probably very obvious but I feel very lonely. I miss the person I want to be with the most.
Advertisement is an absolute necessity of modern life, and if it can be made beautiful as well as obvious, so much the better for the makers of soap and the public who are likely to wash.
It's utterly hypocritical for Israelis to wonder aloud why Palestinians don't pursue a non-violent strategy. One obvious reason is that, whenever they have, Israel brutally represses it.
It's not the meaning of life we seek but our aliveness. Once we have that, the meaning of life is obvious.
An amazing thing, the human brain. Capable of understanding incredibly complex and intricate concepts. Yet at times unable to recognize the obvious and simple.
If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there's this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese traditional culture.
If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.
Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow (e.g., given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone).
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
To the question, "When were your spirits at the lowest ebb?" the obvious answer seemed to be, "When the gin gave out."
We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric.
A Queen's sacrifice, even when fairly obvious, always rejoices the heart of the chess-lover.
With the new weapons like the atom bomb, Russia would have it, too, and use it first. It is a very difficult world. But that trouble is imminent is obvious.
My intention is not to replace one set of general rules by another such set: my intention is, rather, to convince the reader that all methodologies, even the most obvious ones, have their limits.
